[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'oynot

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, September 27, 2019

Klingon word: 'oynot
Part of speech: noun
Definition: unspecified flesh (of an animal) 
Source: qep'a' 23
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AFAIK it's only been used in Discovery (by Qov):

QongtaHvIS HeghDI' SuvwI', 'oynot, Hom je neH yugh. 
A warrior who dies in his sleep is no more than flesh and bone. (DSC "Battle At the Binary Stars")

CULTURAL NOTES:
(KGT 87):   Large animals are usually chopped into pieces, sometimes with attention paid to which piece is which... sometimes not (the {ghab}, for example, is just a chunk of the midsection of an animal, including any organs that may have remained attached after the carving).

 (KGT 27):  The word {ghab}, however, which refers to any chunk of the midsection of an animal, has slightly varying meanings depending on region. In most of the empire, including the First City, {ghab} is rather inclusive: basically, whatever was chopped off the animal as a single piece, with or without bones or internal organs. In some areas, {ghab} is never applied to a cut of meat lacking bones. Instead, the phrase {ghab tun} (perhaps translatable as fillet, though literally, "soft {ghab}") is sometimes heard. The same concept would be expressed in most of the Empire, including by speakers of {ta' Hol}, by a longer phrase:  {Hom Hutlhbogh ghab} ("{ghab} that lacks bone"). The expression {ghab tun} would probably not be used by most.

(KGT 99):  A diner transfers a portion to his or her plate ... if one is available, by simply grabbing the desired quantity of food with a hand... If necessary, two hands may be used to break off ({wItlh}) a slab of the desired fare.

(KGT 88):  A mixture of animal parts is {Daghtuj}, regardless of whether the parts are from the same type of animal.

(KGT 83):  the gastronomically uneducated might consider Klingon food to be nothing but small animals (still alive) or chunks of barely dead animals thrown together indiscriminately with odoriferous herbs

PUN: 
Backwards {'oynot} is {tonyo'}, i.e. Antonio, from whom the moneylender Shylock sought his "pound of flesh" (Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice)

SEE ALSO:
Ha'DIbaH 		animal, meat (n)
ghab 			meat from midsection of animal (n)
Hom 			bone (n)
melchoQ  		marrow,  bone marrow  (n)
to'waQ 			ligament, tendon (n)
DIr  			skin,  hide (n)

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons